If you’re fluent in both get an interpreter certification. In healthcare and probably some other high reliability industries we’re not yet at the point where TTS / STT and ai translation can fully interpret yet. Specialty languages like Mandarin take a long time to connect so there’s probably a shortage (I know it’s got the most speakers worldwide, but the most common 2nd language in the US is Spanish). It’s also a telework job, it’s almost entirely done by phone / video call these days. You might need to brush up on medical terminology specifically and the finer points of exact translation but if you already know the language that’s probably not a huge leap. I’m thinking that’s going to get automated in the next 5-10 years but it should get you out nowish which sounds like the goal.

CNA school is also usually only 3 months but is pretty physically intensive and you’re stuck with the same patients for the whole shift which sucks if they’re unpleasant.

I worry that billionaires forgot that voting and the free market are agreements we came up with instead of showing up at their house with a guillotine. I honestly really hope none of this ever comes to violence but as this point they’re interfering so much with elections and the market that they’re negating all the other options.

iirc she’s a jackal

I put together a mental health crisis resource for fedi. There’s a couple things I’ve been meaning to update but overall I’m pretty happy with it.

Nurses holding their pee and working 4-5x12hs a week. Hon you’re in danger and gonna get real weird bladder problems.

And if it doesn’t, you’ve still won!

going from pads / tampons to the silicone cup was my learning a better way. First week was rough but by the end of the week and thereafter I couldn’t even feel it once it was in. Went to fuck a few times and the dude was like TF is this? And I’d be like oh shit lemme swap it for a disc real quick.

Shitty childhood. On the upside I learned a lot of useful skills, namely how to tell when someone’s getting ready to hit someone. Comes in handy in my line of work. There’s been plenty of times where the patient starts screaming and my coworkers are like “oh no what do we do!?” And I’m like “wait 30 more minutes for the haldol I gave them 30 minutes ago to hit. They can holler until then if they need to.” Sometimes I just look at the way someone’s pacing and how hard and fast their steps are and my brain just goes “hell naw” and usually if I catch it then the person still has enough sense to take a pill for it.

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SOLVED. ❤️

1mil but I’d probably still work. I’d wanna be a fulltime BERRT nurse (Behavioral Emergency Rapid Response Team) and just wander around the hospital at night calming patients down. I’ve done a little BERRT work but most hospitals won’t pay a living wage for someone to do that full time. It’s usually just lumped on the psych unit charge so they can only respond when they’re not busy which defeats the point of an emergency response protocol. Doing that full time and just wandering around the hospital giving fake cigarettes to people with Alzheimer’s and talking people withdrawing into sticking it out through their detox protocol would literally be my dream come true LOL.

A dog whistle is just a shibboleth for Nazis.

Hi I have basically the same problem.

a) take a fucking multivitamin before you get fucking scurvy (til dv vitC of potatoes), anemia, rickets, Wernicke’s encephalopathy, or some other crazy shit in 20 fucking 26.

b) find a high calorie protein shake you can stomach enough to keep down. If you’re only eating like one meal a day anyway you can splurge a little on something premixed and tastier. There’s a weirdly ritzy gas station chain near me that does a lovely strawberry banana smoothie that sits real well on my stomach, and I always get the yogurt scoop and protein shot.

c) start mixing your white sauces (anything that would normally have mayo, sour cream, or runny white cheese) with plain greek yogurt to give you a better fat / protein balance to all those carbs.

d) oh and you need metamucil. Desperately. Food that is both tasty and inoffensively bland is almost by definition low in fiber. And tbh you might find giving your bowels a good scrubbing may affect your appetite for the better.

Raccoon. Still got haaaaaands biiiitches

(Not a doctor, definitely not YOUR anything)

Does it say no sugar or no caffeine?

A bunch of stuff in this post piqued my attention. TIL some departments of transportation will require sleep apnea testing for a commercial driver’s license if the person meets certain criteria including being overweight.

Anyway I also did a decently deep dive into sleep study instructions like this one from The Cleveland Clinic I don’t see anything about sugary beverages in any of them. What I do see is a few things about alcohol and a looooot of stuff about caffeine. And I know if you were just listed coke, iced tea, lattes, monsters, etc your first thought might be sugar even though they’re all caffeinated too.

Either way you’re probably screwed because iced tea is also caffeinated but double check the specific instructions the place doing your sleep study gave you and their cutoff time because I’m seeing a bunch of different things on specific cutoff time, and I suspect it has to do with the clinic’s daily scheduled ‘bedtime routine’ timetable. Overall though it’s not so much of whether or not they’ll let you take it as much as there being good odds you just fail it.

Sleepytime extra does (it’s the extra).

Nothing OTC or supplement